tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986189487671516031.post3057029499855964164..comments2023-12-27T06:46:57.872-07:00Comments on Tales From Beyond the End of the World: Alpine SeductionRobbie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708885869170287258noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986189487671516031.post-65855867482477084592014-07-02T21:21:20.756-06:002014-07-02T21:21:20.756-06:00Ah, he was at Elmendorf AFB, just outside Anchorag...Ah, he was at Elmendorf AFB, just outside Anchorage.....I was first there for 2 hours christmas eve, 1967, a patient on a C-141 on it's way to Scott AFB and then to DC. <br /><br />The next day was in 1973, August sometime, with my two nephews, on a road trip. It was 87, hot hot hot. There long enough to do a load of laundry, then down the Kenai peninsula. I assumed the summers in Alaska were like the period of a week we were there. Moved back then next spring, found out that that was the hottest day then on record for Anchburg. Should Fish Morehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18400586203204886095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986189487671516031.post-44731797599043813352014-07-02T10:24:25.572-06:002014-07-02T10:24:25.572-06:00And when I used the descriptive of dirty ivory, th...And when I used the descriptive of dirty ivory, that was me avoiding the <i>snow</i> word for you ;p. At the mine you can't even go into the tunnel-an ill advised practice anyway-what for all the snow piled up to the front. I can see where an avalanche happened over winter on McCellen. Our impressive snowpack has blessed us with a lower fire danger this year.<br /><br />Your right about treeline. I believe I read somewhere that at the equator treeline is fourteen thousand.<br /><br />We had our first eighty degree day Sunday. We're in a bit of a heatwave. I've been keeping weather records the last three years up here, and the hottest it's gotten up here is eighty-eight. I tell my daughter I want an air conditioner for days like that and she glares menacingly at me. My father says when he was stationed in Anchorage in the Air Force it hit eighty once and the older folks were dropping dead of heat stroke. Robbie Greyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708885869170287258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986189487671516031.post-50010279230065784052014-07-02T07:52:25.349-06:002014-07-02T07:52:25.349-06:00Further evidence is the treeline altitude; the fur...Further evidence is the treeline altitude; the further north one goes, the lower the treeline in altitude. Where I live now the treeline is around 9,000 ft, in Alaska it's around 3,000. <br />Nice pictures, Robbie. Our mountains still have a fair amount of snow, boding well for streamflows next month and September. <br />We hit 75 yesterday, and today is projected to be over 80, the first 'hot' day of the summer. Should Fish Morehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18400586203204886095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986189487671516031.post-60348088895019505142014-07-01T15:52:53.979-06:002014-07-01T15:52:53.979-06:00It is an interesting bit of trivia. One of the nic...It is an interesting bit of trivia. One of the nice forest rangers at we encountered around Mount Evans recently mentioned how being up on the summit-over fourteen thousand-was much like being on the Arctic Circle in terms of vegetation and climate. This was something I'd never really considered, even though it makes sense. Robbie Greyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708885869170287258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6986189487671516031.post-62524880220874574542014-07-01T11:43:39.526-06:002014-07-01T11:43:39.526-06:00I also think there is an odd sense of poetry in a ...I also think there is an odd sense of poetry in a place that you could disappear, as so many have. And I think it's cool as hell how for every 1,000 you go vertically, it's like you're traveling 600 miles north in latitude. No wonder there's so much snow on those peaks even in summer! Optimistic Existentialisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11507986337866049924noreply@blogger.com